Articles from Risa Ruse | Selfgrowth.com

Have you ever thought about how Mother Earth was feeling? Well, she shows just that through mirroring our negative emotions that have collectively caused all sorts of catastrophic pain. If you visualize connecting to her crystalline core heart deep within the center of her spirit (who is ...Views: 68

The acts of trauma become like a dense, dark veil covering the soul.
Identifying the emotions to match the veil has to be part of our goal.
That is if we choose to allow our Higher Self to take control, you see.
This is the inner guidance that comes, once we receive it flowing with ...Views: 261

Let us take an imaginary, hypothetical journey together, you see.
Actually, this is something that is really happening to me.
Although, if it could happen to myself the circumstances could be yours, too.
It involves looking down on our everyday lives, examining what keeps us blue.
This ...Views: 338

We were discussing our age appropriateness for retirement last night.
Funny how the issue seemed vague for myself, but for my daughter brought fright.
She was worried (and that comes with a spirit attached) that we can catch.
Though, there are 25 years for her, only a few until Social ...Views: 346

I guess we should identify what we need to get rid of when we want to unshackle ourselves from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD.) That is, the things we need to emotionally throw over-board in order to be able to steer our spiritual ship steady. I was reminded of this analogy when reading ...Views: 479

This titled message is not just for those of us going through PTSD.
It is time to recognize the signs God has given to you, and me.
Scripture coincides these signs called, “Trumpets” in the book of Revelation.
The book of Daniel eerily gives the same reference coordination.
How awesome ...Views: 452

There are light, gray clouds in the sky (that really effect the soul.)
They are not really clouds at all, but dark forces with an evil goal!
Such awful covering over the blue sky binds those with PTSD, too.
One cannot reach the coat of joyfulness while grayness dampens through.
The news ...Views: 599

It is most logical that using prevention is best to combat any disaster, you see.
This can be applied to combating the effects of negative emotions in PTSD.
Granted, the emotional traumatic event(s) already occurred for this plight.
What I am proposing is that we do not take it anymore ...Views: 586

Each experience that we survive through brings a solid skill.
We need to celebrate that PTSD only wounded us, but did not kill!
The battle over our minds is the stronghold of the evil enemy.
Let us beware of thoughts that negate love, while filled with envy.
We must remember that God ...Views: 701

We know that if a recipe is missing a key ingredient, it will not bake right.
In the same train of thought, adding a distasteful one is an awful sight!
That is kind of the way PTSD works with our negative emotions, too.
The healthy, right batter of emotions are missing, so that is why we ...Views: 802

Those of us who have had PTSD know what is means to be stuck in time.
For me, 20 years passed by before I was able to continue to rhyme from the Divine.
No, I do not think I could have moved any faster than I did, you see.
Once getting over a childhood devastation in loss, another mishap ...Views: 795

What makes you think that it was the devil only that brought you down?
It was most certainly his intention to replace your contented smile with a frown.
If we contemplate on why we have PTSD, there may be reign of another reason.
That sovereign power comes from the will of God to perfect in ...Views: 654

We can get used to coping with the negative symptoms of PTSD.
After all, this is the way we have survived through it, you see.
Having done so should be reward enough, is how we start to think.
What we do not realize is that those emotions keep us unbalanced on life’s brink.
Our thoughts ...Views: 543

Matthew 16:3 proclaims our failings as mankind to choose what to discern.
The question evoked, “O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky,” as concern.
Then Matthew proclaims, “But can ye not discern the signs of the times?”
Our television broadcasts the weather forecast over, and ...Views: 542

If your life seems to have been in a constant spiral down, contemplate on this.
There may be forces unseen that are not just PTSD that took away your bliss.
It was not until I started to study the arts of Feng Shui, and Qigong healing energy.
Both are derived from ancient Chinese teachings ...Views: 625

This may sound like a great deal of action in the practice of Qigong.
Using a positive intent, will further the process of negativity removal along.
Getting rid of negative emotions (that may invite evil spirits) needs examination.
Let me explain that there is a difference between spirits, ...Views: 689

Having had PTSD attracts certain personality traits in relationships.
This can be very detrimental in finding healthy, positive partnerships.
An example, for me is finding appropriate tenants to rent my duplex property.
Interviewing them is a process of filtering out negative emotions, you ...Views: 476

It is usually a very long, winding road to recovery from events of PTSD.
If a person gets help right away, it may not take as long as it did for me.
After hearing a preacher’s message in a sermon, a revelation transpired.
He said that each of us has a seed planted by God (as I became ...Views: 498

When we find ourselves faced with a troublesome issue, reflect first.
Be quiet, and still your senses so that the answer comes as you thirst.
In silence ask yourself, “What caused this strange situation to begin?”
Looking over what emotions have overflowed will keep us from a spin.
You ...Views: 509

1 Peter 4:12 quandary proclaims strange, fiery trials we are experiencing.
This passage explains much, as customized, cruel tribulations may bring.
We may have been trying our very best to get along with others.
Only to be continually attacked by those we treat as sisters, and ...Views: 523

Isaiah 43:18-21 describes temptations’ power over us as being done.
There God proclaims how He makes a way, once His will has begun!
He arrives like the Calvary with guns blasting whether on land, or sea.
The battle is not just won, but the enemy is rebuked to destruction, you see.
Those ...Views: 594

How can we expect to drink clean water out of a dirty glass?
When such is given to us, it is right to just let that grime pass.
Otherwise, no matter what kind of water purifier we have it will be corrupted.
It is such a waste of time, and effort to continue while success is ...Views: 531

Conquering covert, and overt evil in the world starts in our own heart.
Putting away our past hurts from PTSD is the way to a good, healthy start.
Saint Paul’s Philippians 3:13 concentrates on eagerly moving forward.
We must set our minds to move past what issues kept us going ...Views: 485

There is nothing worse than having a sapping secret to feed.
It takes away precious life-force energy to make it continuously heed.
PTSD is like filling up your gas tank, and emptying it getting lost.
We keep using up our energy, going nowhere at a hidden cost.
Some of us with trauma may ...Views: 527

The seasons of the year coincides with how we can celebrate our days.
Those of us with PTSD may be considered being in winter with delays.
We may be still clearing out the debris of storms that came years ago.
This kind of rubble comes from carrying negative emotions that grow.
These ...Views: 536

When dealing with PTSD we need to ask ourselves a few things.
It is an internal conversation, where we wait to see what the answer brings.
We become our own judge, and jury when we examine each, and every fact.
It is important that we are truly honest, so as to keep our ego in tact.
The ...Views: 568

We should beware of merchants offering their goods for free.
Examine their motives, with strings attached, for healing PTSD.
Satan, and his demons are a type of merchant with strings, too.
He may suggest taking the easy way out in suicide, which is true.
Doctors, and therapists may make ...Views: 591

You know success is near when friends become haters, you see.
They realize there is something grander in you (they cannot be.)
It was all well, and good to give us encouragement when down.
After all, having to live with PTSD would make anyone frown.
For years, perhaps, our past trauma ...Views: 562

If we are struggling with our finances, this may be linked to our purpose, too.
That will take some time to internally investigate what keeps us so blue.
Having experiences linked to PTSD will affect that area, most certainly.
This is because we become impoverished in our positive emotions, ...Views: 594

It may have been smooth sailing for a while in our lives.
Then all of a sudden something happens, and we break out in hives!
We become engaged into a new storm, or situation of despair.
Those with PTSD have significant events of trauma to compare.
How do we manage to get out of this ...Views: 624

Think earnestly, even if our life’s PTSD experience has taught us to be mean.
To continue to mistreat others this way, we only allow misery to glean.
By persisting to act out old behavior, we deprive ourselves, too.
Instead of moving forward, we endorse what has made us blue!
We react to ...Views: 555

What a strange concept, that seems to pull away from reality.
It will make more sense, if we connect PTSD to emotions of carnality.
Okay, let us give these emotions a face describing the following list.
The carnal man or woman connects to fear, anger, worry, stress, and lust.
In ...Views: 583

The song with words, “Should old acquaintance be forgot” applies here.
Those of us with PTSD need to do so in order for healing to truly adhere.
New Year’s day is anytime we begin to reflect on how we can smother sorrow.
For instance, “What can we get rid of today to proliferate a better ...Views: 579

Lots of candles on a cake remind us of life gone by.
They can represent memories of happiness, or a sigh.
Those of us with PTSD will have the latter, unfortunately.
Repressing those memorable hurts protects us conditionally.
We avoid counting the candles blown out to keep going, you ...Views: 507

Perhaps, we with PTSD have been diligent in our healing practice each day.
We incorporate orchestras of alternative healing techniques, per say.
For myself, using Qigong energy relieves deep-rooted, blocked emotions.
Further releases of negative energy come with my own prayerful ...Views: 559

Having PTSD can be compared to having a famine in our mind.
It is a persistent weed-type of unnatural, inharmonious growth, this kind.
Such takes over the garden of constructive thoughts in our lives.
Misery proliferates not just in relationships, but a financial hole thrives!
As it ...Views: 692

The Chinese have a process or way of living using Qigong that enhances health.
In fact, they go beyond internal movement of life force energy to include wealth!
The healing art of Qigong opens up our body’s organs channels to release blocks.
We need to do this (as much as possible) like ...Views: 1031

There is something universal to how we with PTSD react to abuse.
Having experienced a trauma or two we may think trying is of no use.
What is it that makes a miserably, mistreated woman ultimately stay?
Her conviction to a religious conscience may be a heavy reason in play.
The thing ...Views: 536

Perhaps, we have been trying all kinds of alternative healing.
It is not from our lack of sincere diligence that the devil keeps stealing.
What we have to realize is that staying in the same situation stagnates.
Whatever positive affirmations being said, the circumstance negates.
Letting ...Views: 479

Ephesians 6:12 tell us that the battle is not ours to fight.
It is God’s battle-axe we must swing with all our might!
Flesh and blood cannot resist, alone, against power-hungry principalities.
Such is the same for us with PTSD combating the mind’s imagined realities.
We need to be armed ...Views: 530

Let us liken our minds to the measure of a cup full, per say.
No matter what the substance is, only what is within can stay.
Our cups may have formerly been filled with laughter, and joy inside.
Then after a traumatic event(s) only fear, and anger may stubbornly abide.
Thoughts of the ...Views: 605

What we with PTSD need to consider for healing is a seasonal, changing strategy.
Without a constant attention to where we are, our progress becomes a tragedy!
The things like protective mechanisms may no longer be advantageous.
Those emotions of anger, and fear prevented us from becoming ...Views: 572

Unlike a broken china cup, we with PTSD can be glued back together.
Applying things (like giving our time) can heal like a tickling feather!
Doing so not only helps others, but also takes our attention off of the past.
Filling our days with caring tasks proliferates a sense of joy that may ...Views: 621

What we with PTSD need to know is in the form of a spiritual concept.
It is vital for healing ourselves that negativity we daily reject.
This comes in the characteristics of universal emotions, you see.
There is a spirit attached, especially, to reactions of negativity.
One must be in ...Views: 617

Fear may come again just when we have gotten over a chaotic season.
Perhaps, God’s Divine plan for us being on the way is the reason.
Elijah, in I Kings 19, is an example of how victory may turn over to fear.
He was given strength to do God’s will beyond himself, and that is clear.
Our ...Views: 609

All of us (at one time or another) will experience some kind of pain.
There is comfort in knowing that one-day, too, will come a greater gain.
In Daniel 6:27 depicts how he was delivered from the lions' power, you see.
His faith sustained him through terrific trial, like trauma in you and ...Views: 552

John 14:12-14 states, “That whatever we ask in My name, the Father will do.”
We can bank on that happening when we run towards our purpose to pursue!
Knowing what that Divine purpose is that was created for us is key.
Not asking for something that does not fulfill the Father’s will, you ...Views: 541

The choices we make determine what pathways our lives will take.
Whatever we do, one thing we must not do and that is to procrastinate!
This is because opportunities to pull us out of one path may arise.
Even with a clouded present forecast, prayer can lead us to a future prize.
It may ...Views: 692

The greater the gifted reward is congruent to a more stealth in affliction.
This explains why our cross seems heavier to bear from this contradiction.
My own cross came in the form of property catastrophe, together with infirmity.
The weight of the snow and ice was relentless causing ...Views: 555

Some folks may ask, “What does it mean to be still, and the benefits?”
If we want to change our circumstances, we have to kill our emotional fits.
These are a particular blend when talking about having experienced PTSD.
Rewinding a past, treacherous event blocks us from reaching, you ...Views: 646